"The superior man is catholic and no partizan. The mean man is a partizan and not catholic." (君子周而不比、小人比而不周。) ─ Confucius, The Analects, 2.XIV, translation by James Legge.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Was Saint Augustine of Hippo Right About Time?

Of course he was, and Ordered Liberty has a post about research suggesting there is "[n]o evidence of time before Big Bang," referring to "a trio of papers taking aim at a recent claim that concentric rings of uniform temperature within the cosmic microwave background — the radiation left over from the Big Bang — might, in fact, be the signatures of black holes colliding in a previous cosmic 'aeon' that existed before our Universe" — Looks like the universe doesn't just cycle for eternity.